What’s the matter, cat got your tongue?
Quote of the Day: “Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not by much.” – Buddy Hackett
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How LED streetlights will change how Hollywood looks on film
Last year, Los Angeles decided to replace its high-pressure sodium streetlights, which are know for their distinctive yellow hue, with new, blue-tinted LED’s. The new streetlights might have a profound effect on at least one local industry.
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Scientists reading habits may be leveling off
Scholarly articles in digital forms overtook printed ones, but survey suggests increase in reading may have reached a peak.
A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to be leveling off. In 2012, US scientists and social scientists estimated that they read, on average, 22 scholarly articles per month (or 264 per year). That is, statistically, not different from what they reported in an identical survey last conducted in 2005. It is the first time since the reading-habit questionnaire began in 1977 that manuscript consumption has not increased.
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One-third of San Francisco’s registered cab drivers ditch taxis for Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar
Lyft drivers sport “carstaches” on their vehicles while on duty.
San Francisco is where Uber and Lyft got their starts and resistance to these services seems futile. One third of taxi cab drivers in San Francisco have ditched their registered cabs and are now working for Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar, according to Fortune.
Coffee consumption around the world
The U.S. isn’t even in the top 10 of coffee consumption.
America might be famous for running on coffee, but compared to a handful of other countries, it doesn’t run on much. When it comes to actual coffee consumption per person, the US doesn’t even crack the top 15.
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Jarvis: The new wearable gadget that isn’t getting enough attention
Jarvis smart earbuds
Wearable gadgets like Google Glass, fitness trackers and smartwatches are getting a lot of press these days, but there’s another kind of wearable device worth your notice: smart earbuds.
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Top 14 Photos of the Week
If your vision is getting bad, squeezing in a little exercise never hurts!
Quote of the Week: “Misers aren’t fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors.” – David Brenner
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The future of the degree is doomed
Higher education is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change.
The quintessential value proposition of higher education has always been the degree or certificate. Americans have embraced degrees with a fervor. Everyone should have degrees. And their perceived value elsewhere in the world — in Asia in particular — is if anything even higher.
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Do we have a retirement savings crisis in America?
Is there a retirement saving crisis in the U.S.? A study recently released by the National Institute on Retirement Security shows we are in bad shape. Retirement saving is dangerously low especially for people without retirement accounts. Let’s take a look at the data.
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Maybe pigs can fly!
Quote of the Week: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
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A third of women in the U.S. use Pinterest: Study
Pinterest has experienced strong growth among women in particular.
According to a new Pew Research study, Pinterest’s popularity in the United States has surged in the last year, particularly among women. Pinterest is now used by more than one-fifth (21%) of American adults, up from 15% a year earlier, according to a survey of U.S. social networking habits from Pew Research. That puts the social bookmarking service slightly ahead of Twitter and Instagram, though all three are well behind Facebook.
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11% of shoppers are totally naked when shopping online
Shopping in the buff!
A new PayPal survey has revealed that 11% of consumers do their online shopping while they are completely in the nude. The poll sampled 4,524 consumers between the ages of 16 and 64 to learn more about their holiday shopping habits leading up to this Christmas season.
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